Playing With Toys While People are Dying

This article has some good food for thought and reflections on games and gave development. Everyone who makes games should spend some time thinking about how they personally respond to the opening paragraph:

“The work of video game developers distracts the world from problems which desperately need solutions. The culture this feeds is fundamentally depraved, the financial outcomes are random and, ultimately, nothing of worth is produced.”

Do you make games? How do you respond?